Harrisburg-area native Bobby Warshaw is perhaps the most unique voice in American soccer, and he talked recently with PSP's Dan Walsh about his life after soccer, life behind the scenes for pro soccer players, new book, frustrations with Philadelphia Union, and recent time spent in a Syrian refugee camp overseas.

Penn FC will be the professional team for the 34,000 strong youth soccer organization

After several days of hints and teases (and maybe a few unintentional leaks), Harrisburg finally revealed the big surprises that will determine the future of the club with a series of coordinated press releases and reveals on social media.

At around 4:30 on Saturday afternoon, a storm rolled out of the west and struck City Island in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Oh, did you think I meant a metaphorical storm? No, it was an actual thunderstorm that hit the island. There was even a tornado watch for a little while there. The metaphorical storm didn't hit City Island until closer to 7:00 p.

The USL season has been over for less than a day, and already there's multiple big moves being made in preparation for 2018. Atlanta and Memphis are talking about new teams joining the fray as early as next year. Then, and another move that's certain to shake up the USL Eastern Conference, Rochester Rhinos coach Bob Lilley came back to Pennsylvania to become the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

As the USL season winds down and the top teams scratch and claw for position in the increasingly tight playoff races this year, it'd be easy to forget that there's a new piece of hardware that's up for grabs in 2017.

The Old Guard Shield was announced back in February to much fanfare from the USL and the eligible teams.

Harrisburg can't find a goal as they fall to Rochester for the second time this season

My usual readers (if I have any) know that I like to do my match recaps by writing down the blow-by-blow of the whole match before looking at the bigger implications of what went down. Unfortunately, that style doesn't particularly fit for Tuesday night's match between Harrisburg and Rochester.

Oh, stoppage time. You are a cruel mistress. A mere three days after Harrisburg found a stoppage time goal to secure a win over Saint Louis FC, they saw their own victory over FC Cincinnati turn into a mere draw after Cincy found a goal deep, deep into stoppage time.

Harrisburg flew out to St. Louis without much hope for their season. They were mired in a five match losing streak, which was the longest such streak in the Eastern Conference so far in 2017. Thanks to all of the losses, they'd slipped all the way down to 14th in the standings.

The City Islanders show signs of life during a soggy loss to the Rowdies

Harrisburg may have lost on Wednesday night, but they put together a performance that was miles ahead of their some of their most recent matches. This was a team that had dropped their last four matches by a combined score of 12-0.

Harrisburg was facing an uphill climb as they prepared for Saturday's match against Tampa Bay. They were playing their second match in Florida on only two days rest, and to make matters worse most of the pregame focused on how hot and humid the conditions were in Al Lang Stadium.

Richmond fell 1-0 to the Harrisburg City Islanders Saturday, meaning the Kickers only nabbed one point during their three-game road trip. With the loss, the Kickers haven't won one away game all season. Chris Durkin and Chris Odoi-Atsem joined the starting eleven, and newly signed midfielder Oscar Umar made his first start for the team.

Richmond fell 1-0 to the Harrisburg City Islanders Saturday, meaning the Kickers only nabbed one point during their three-game road trip. With the loss, the Kickers haven't won one away game all season. Chris Durkin and Chris Odoi-Atsem joined the starting eleven, and newly signed midfielder Oscar Umar made his first start for the team.

The Rest

The USL's Harrisburg side will become Penn FC, a partnership with youth soccer conglomerate Colorado Rush. Also, more awful news out of Columbus from their movie bad guy owner, and interesting stuff from around U.S. and world soccer.

It was Warren Zevon who famously asked, "What's a Canadian farm boy to do?" Since the farm boy was a hockey player, the answer in that case was, "Hit Somebody!" A more unusual question, one with a less obvious answer, is, "What's a professional soccer goalkeeper with a major in marketing to do?

Harrisburg secures a come from behind victory thanks to a Ropapa Mensah brace.

It's getting quite late in the season for the City Islanders, but they still ran into a couple of 2017 firsts during their match against Toronto FC II on Saturday night. This would ultimately end up being Harrisburg's first match of 2017 where a player scored a brace, which is either the sign of a troubled offense or a well spread out attack (it's probably more of the first than the second).

The two hottest teams in the Eastern Conference come together Tuesday night.

The Harrisburg City Islanders and Charlotte Independence are rocking and rolling through the middle part of the USL season, and have each defied early setbacks to climb the standings. The Independence won their last meeting at home, 2-0, over the Islanders, but Harrisburg is a different team now and should expect a better performance at home.